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A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Matter. The Justice Department guidelines preclude indicting a sitting president. Michael cohen in his own words defying his long time ally. He has said he would take a bullet for President Trump. And now hes publicly saying in court under oath that he committed these crimes in coordination and at the direction of the then candidate. Very specific words. Could cohen still cooperate with the Special Counsel Robert Muellers overall russia probe . As you know, mueller delegated this case to the u. S. Attorney in the Southern Dis...

America. We talk about testing of the guardrails. In most cases the guardrails of democracy have held up. In this case we might find out that bill barr broke one of those guardrails and we are still dealing with it. All right. This is as good a place to end as any. My thanks today to joyce, frank, matt. That does it for this hour. Thank you so much for watching not just this hour but all day long. Were grateful to all of you. Mtp daily with my friend chuck todd starts now. Well, if its wednesday, its no ordinary hump idea. Its meet the press daily. And we are in the center of a break news stor...

Says you couldn't indict a president while in office. hopefully, that is one of the many reforms we will take up in a post-trump era. but after he leaves officer, if there is enough evidence to charge him for either federal crimes or new york state trooims crimes, you bet he can be indicted. >> always great to have you here on this morning. thanks so much for your time. >> thanks, dara. well, next, early numbers on friday shopping. is it still the busiest shopping day of the year? y of the year? it'll ruin your house. so get allstate and be better protected from mayhem, like meow. janie, com...

Happen, and this is going to blow up trump. and stuff is going on behind the scenes. mueller is putting together a massive map of the obstruction and the russian collusion and something's going to happen. and there's going to be indictments, and, man, trump is scared and the white house is terrified. and mueller came out with a report, he did not -- he could not establish a line of connection between the russians and the trump campaign. and then he did not feel comfortable saying that justice was obstructed each thouven tho says that's because the olc says you couldn't indict a president. that...

>> i want to bring in neal katyal and legal an. . it's interesting that the interpretation, robert mueller spoke with a lot. restraint and finally parsed and. ly to the script. what he had written. what. doing. unmistakable. a rare moment. consensus. . understood what robert mueller did. request. >> exactly. it's so clear that the two things he chose to pluck out. his hundreds. pages. report were number one, i couldn't indict the president so don't say you are cleared because i. couldn't do it under doj policy. number two, i could clear the president if the facts showed, but the facts didn't s...